The first table below looks at the demand for OpenView skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenView over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Systems Management category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP OpenView (HPOV)
Rank 196 198 231
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +33
Contract jobs citing OpenView 5 15 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.079% 0.193% 0.152%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.377% 3.571% 3.151%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 8
Average daily rate £425 £400 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £410 £275 £291
10% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £478 £573
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £263 £200
% change year-on-year
+33.33% +31.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.98 £12.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+3.59% -66.58%
All Systems Management
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
363 420 476
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 5.766% 5.398% 4.836%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 263 300
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 31
Average hourly rate £30.50 £22.25 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.07% +1.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.90 £15.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.60 £33.55 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
OpenView
London

OpenView
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OpenView across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

City of London OpenView Jobs Demand Trend

OpenView
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OpenView across the City of London region.

City of London OpenView Daily Rate Trend

OpenView
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing OpenView across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London OpenView Daily Rate Histogram

OpenView
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing OpenView across the City of London region.

City of London OpenView Hourly Rate Trend

OpenView
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing OpenView also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited OpenView.

1 20 (95.24%) HP
2 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
3 9 (42.86%) Cisco
4 8 (38.10%) Juniper
4 8 (38.10%) Firewall
4 8 (38.10%) Banking
5 7 (33.33%) VMware
5 7 (33.33%) SCOM
5 7 (33.33%) Wireless
5 7 (33.33%) Ethernet
6 6 (28.57%) MS Office
6 6 (28.57%) Finance
6 6 (28.57%) Law
6 6 (28.57%) SCCM
6 6 (28.57%) HP SIM
6 6 (28.57%) ArcSight
7 5 (23.81%) OmniPeek
7 5 (23.81%) Hyper-V
7 5 (23.81%) Wireshark
7 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
7 5 (23.81%) Migration
7 5 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (23.81%) CheckPoint
7 5 (23.81%) Windows
7 5 (23.81%) LAN
7 5 (23.81%) WAN
7 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
7 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
8 4 (19.05%) IPv6
8 4 (19.05%) VoIP

OpenView
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing OpenView also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited OpenView. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (19.05%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) CMS
1 4 (19.05%) Lync
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) MS Office
2 2 (9.524%) MS Excel
3 1 (4.762%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.762%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 8 (38.10%) Firewall
2 7 (33.33%) Wireless
2 7 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
3 5 (23.81%) LAN
3 5 (23.81%) Wireshark
3 5 (23.81%) WAN
3 5 (23.81%) OmniPeek
4 4 (19.05%) VoIP
4 4 (19.05%) WLAN
4 4 (19.05%) IPv6
5 3 (14.29%) IPsec
5 3 (14.29%) MPLS
5 3 (14.29%) OSPF
5 3 (14.29%) BGP
5 3 (14.29%) RSVP
5 3 (14.29%) PSTN
5 3 (14.29%) VPN
5 3 (14.29%) SNMP
6 1 (4.762%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.762%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 8 (38.10%) Banking
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Law
3 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
4 3 (14.29%) Front Office
4 3 (14.29%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Systems Analyst
3 4 (19.05%) Applications Support
3 4 (19.05%) Voice Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Voice Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Support Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (9.524%) UNIX Administrator
5 2 (9.524%) Architect
5 2 (9.524%) Administrator
6 1 (4.762%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (4.762%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.762%) Support Manager
6 1 (4.762%) Applications Manager
6 1 (4.762%) Storage Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) Senior Storage Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (4.762%) 2nd Line Support Manager
6 1 (4.762%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) PKI
2 2 (9.524%) LPAR
2 2 (9.524%) HACMP
2 2 (9.524%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 2 (9.524%) AIX
2 2 (9.524%) Linux
2 2 (9.524%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (9.524%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (23.81%) Migration
2 4 (19.05%) Network Management
3 2 (9.524%) Equity Research
3 2 (9.524%) Asset Management
3 2 (9.524%) Investment Management
3 2 (9.524%) Project Management
4 1 (4.762%) Change Management
4 1 (4.762%) Validation
4 1 (4.762%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (4.762%) Wealth Management
4 1 (4.762%) ITIL
4 1 (4.762%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (4.762%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) C#
1 3 (14.29%) VB.NET
2 2 (9.524%) AWK
2 2 (9.524%) sed
3 1 (4.762%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.524%) DV Cleared
3 2 (9.524%) RHCE
3 2 (9.524%) RHCT
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
1 5 (23.81%) Hyper-V
2 2 (9.524%) NFS
2 2 (9.524%) Samba
2 2 (9.524%) VMware ESX
2 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) SCOM
2 6 (28.57%) SCCM
2 6 (28.57%) HP SIM
3 3 (14.29%) CiscoWorks
4 2 (9.524%) HP Data Protector
5 1 (4.762%) Legato
5 1 (4.762%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (4.762%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) HP
2 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
3 9 (42.86%) Cisco
4 8 (38.10%) Juniper
5 7 (33.33%) VMware
6 6 (28.57%) ArcSight
7 5 (23.81%) CheckPoint
8 4 (19.05%) Verint
8 4 (19.05%) Avaya
8 4 (19.05%) Infovista
9 3 (14.29%) Nortel
9 3 (14.29%) Mitel
9 3 (14.29%) Nokia
10 2 (9.524%) Red Hat
10 2 (9.524%) Bloomberg
10 2 (9.524%) Intel
10 2 (9.524%) IBM
11 1 (4.762%) EMC
11 1 (4.762%) F5